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Hello.
We've reached that time of the year where we're all fully entrenched in work or studies (or both) and are starting to itch for a little holiday. Just a day or two to lock up the office, turn off the laptop and head to the ocean. Packing a bag that will last you the weekend and spending days drinking coffee and shopping for records. Please can we go now?
For those of us that live in reality and can't run away so easily, we offer you this current edition of White Hart Lane. Immerse yourself in tour bus tales and childhood memories of back seat entertainment (of the PG variety). Here's your little parcel of escapism to while away your afternoon.
WHL xx
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This Charming Man
Jack Kerouac; ruggedly handsome American beat poet, painter and author most famous for the largely autobiographical novel On The Road . A defining work describing Kerouac’s fascination with humanity through friendship, jazz, drugs, booze and loose women on a road-trip across the vast United States ... [Read More...]
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Oh You Pretty Thing
Sissy Hankshaw, played by Uma Thurman in Gus Van Sant's 1993 release "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues", is our ultimate roadtrip queen. orn with thumbs twice the average size, Sissy sets out to become the best hitchhiker the world has ever known. [Read More...]
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Don't Believe the Hype?
There's a swag of much hyped albums scheduled for release in the coming weeks. Some are genuinly exciting, some we're not too convinced about... [Read More...]
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Pink with Envy
The Big Pink formed over jealousy. Not the usual jealous boyfriend variety, but an envy that stemmed from a record label boss wishing he could be a rock star himself.
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Men with Beards
My old man has a theory that wild, overgrown beards indicate a man is hiding from something. Their beards scream "I'm escaping reality and essentially running away from the norms of society". I struggle with accepting this theory. Especially when I see him with a bushy beard of his own circa 1971... [Read more...]
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Little Runaway
It was the Spring of 1961 and Del Shannon thought his crack at the big time was all but lost … until a re-write and re-record of his song My Little Runaway propelled him to the top of the US and UK Billboard charts with a #1 hit for weeks on end. [Read More...]
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High Rotation -
a little of what we've been listening to
Sydney's Catherine Kelleher (Kiosk member) is busting moves in her new r&b outfit Catcall (pictured left). Inspired by "Metronomy, Animal Collective, Fleetwood Mac, Big Black and Men’s Recovery Project", she's currently recording her debut album. Meanwhile, we keep coming back to her MySpace page and begging for more... [Read more...]
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The Duke Spirit
Tambourine wielding Leila Moss is finally gracing our stages with The Duke Spirit Australian tour. Soak up the power pop front woman and her 4 piece troupe de force at the following venues... [Read more...]
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"I did run away once when I was about twelve, but it was from School, and I think I ran to home. Home was awesome. School was shit. I don't trust anybody who enjoyed school"
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Future Romance
Thank goodness for Australian fashion’s new romantics. Romance Was Born are the adorable design duo Anna Plunkett and Luke Sales, who are single handedly loosening the purse strings with their colour fuelled and playful collections full of richly textured fabrics, fine tailoring , crochet, tie-dying and bold prints inspired by a true love of Australia, its vibrant characters and diverse landscape. [Read More...]
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Beautiful Chaos
NOM*d have put together yet another collection of intensely rich textures and clasing prints. Confusing and confronting the eye in a layering frenzy entitled Bedlam, their new range has been inspired by an 18th century London asylum for the insane and deranged. [Read More...]
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Ye Old Sea Shanty
In association with the L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival the good ship Glitzern is setting sail with a rollicking exhibition Summon The Kraken. Showcasing jewellery and accessories inspired by those cold slithery creatures of the deep dark sea from over 30 of the good ships favourite designers.
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Maus Trapped
The Claude Maus Autumn/Winter ’09 collection is awash with a Nordic neo-folk aesthetic and plenty of leather, delicate dresses and drop-crotch pants to keep the winter blues at bay. [Read More...]
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Wasson Online
Cool girl Erin Wasson has already delved into modelling, jewellery design and muse for Alexander Wang, but now the little minx has created her debut line for RVCA. And it's finally online shopping time. [Read More...]
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And the Mouse met the Ambiguous Horse
The third Penthouse Mouse installment is creatively bubbling away as I type. A collaboration of space, design, fashion, art, jewellery and an Ambiguous Horse... [Read More...]
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Fashion Rebels
Breaking the Rules: Fashion Rebel Look is screening at ACMI as part of the Loreal Melbourne Fashion Festival. Breaking the Rules: Fashion Rebel Look chronicles the maverick designs of some of the most flamboyant Brisitsh designers. Cue John Galliano, Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen.
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Hit & Run
A rogue red and white vintage 1958 Plymouth Fury affectionately named Christine by its previous, now deceased owner is bought for a measly $250 by a nerdy four-eyed teen named Arnie in the spring of 1979. [Read more...]
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Death to iPod
Now, let’s be honest. Who really needs a portable music listening device the size of your palm that stores thousands upon thousands of your favourite songs… and films and pictures – forget I mentioned those… when you could grab yourself ... a portable record player. [Read more...]
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Comedy Bites
The Melbourne International Comedy Festival is on it's way (April 1 - 26 to be exact). Headlining the event is US rebel Janeane Garofalo, star of Reality Bites and Emmy Award Winner for The Larry Sanders Show. [Read More...]
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Car Culture
Carl's Cars is a quarterly magazine published in Oslo and distributed worldwide. A magazine that combines automotive style with fashion, music and design, the content is more about the personalities and stories entwined with vehicles, rather than machismo and oil rags. [Read More...]
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Burn Baby Burn
Stop, Drop and Roll is a new Australian magazine describing itself as the "spark to light a fire of new writing and art". Around 100 pages of inspired interviews, short stories and political banter, the debut issue features muted, soulful photography .... [Read More...]
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The Ankle Bone's Connected to
the Knee Bone
Ahh … how to while away those hours of staring vacantly out the window of your parent's station wagon on a family holiday to Lazy Crab Hotel, Dawesville WA circa 1983.
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Don't Bottle It Up
Couldn't help but be drawn to this Message in a Bottle kit. Yes it may be childish but fucking hell can you imagine someone discovering your witty, passionate letter off the coast of Costa Rica?! [Read More...]
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